How can we add subtitles in video view in android 4.2.2? -

protected void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) {         super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);         setcontentview(r.layout.videoview_main);         mediaplayer mp=new mediaplayer();         videoview = (videoview) findviewbyid(r.id.videoview);         }          pdialog = new progressdialog(videoviewactivity.this);         // set progressbar title         pdialog.settitle("android video streaming tutorial");         // set progressbar message         pdialog.setmessage("buffering...");         pdialog.setindeterminate(false);         pdialog.setcancelable(false);         // show progressbar         pdialog.show();          try {             mediacontroller mediacontroller = new mediacontroller(                     videoviewactivity.this);             mediacontroller.setanchorview(videoview);                             uri video = uri.parse(videourl);             videoview.setmediacontroller(mediacontroller);             videoview.setvideouri(video);             inputstream = getapplicationcontext().getresources().openrawresource(r.raw.test);             videoview.addsubtitlesource(i ,mediaformat.createsubtitleformat("text/srt",locale.english.getlanguage()));              videoview.start();           } catch (exception e) {             log.e("error", e.getmessage());             e.printstacktrace();         }          videoview.requestfocus();        }   } 

the above code showing java.lang.nosuchmethoderror: when try run on android 4.2 version. other way can use subtitles in video view in android?

do not use default android media player. use ijkplayer, there vlc lib, vitamo , many other media players android. not sure tho if every 1 of mentioned players have subtitle adding feature.